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Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Conventions and Abbreviations -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Heritable Justice in Scotland -- 1.2 Seigneurial Justice: Scotland in European Context -- 1.3 The Regality of Grant -- 2 The Clan Grant and the Regality Court -- 2.1 Strathspey in the Early Eighteenth Century -- 2.2 The Lairds of Grant, the Fine and the Regality Court of Grant --  2.2.1  The Lairds of Grant --  2.2.2  Bailies of the Regality of Grant --  2.2.3  The Fine of Clan Grant: John Grant of Dalrachney -- 2.3 Conclusion -- 3 The Regality Court and Its Procedures -- 3.1 Court Officials --  3.1.1  Clerks of the Court --  3.1.2  Procurators Fiscal --  3.1.3  Officers --  3.1.4  Birlawmen -- 3.2 How, Why and When Were Courts Convened? --  3.2.1  When? --  3.2.2  Where? -- 3.3 The Court Day -- 4 Actions for Debt -- 4.1 Debt and Credit in Strathspey -- 4.2 The Collection of Rents -- 4.3 Poinding -- 4.4 Debt and Divisions in the Grant Family: Unwarranted Poinding 1710-1711 --  4.4.1  Rental Crisis --  4.4.2  Case Study: Ludovick Grant of that Ilk v. Mungo Grant of Mullochard and Others -- 4.5 Conclusion -- 5 Criminal Jurisdiction -- 5.1 Violent Crime and the Regality Court of Grant --  5.1.1  Trends in Violent Crime --  5.1.2  Gendered Differences in Violence --  5.1.3  Types of Violence --   a) Violent Threats and Caution --   b) Violent Disputes -- 5.1.4  Process -- 5.1.5  Punishment -- 5.2 Serious Crime and the Regality Court of Grant -- 5.3 The Northern Circuit of the Justiciary Court and the Regality of Grant --  5.3.1  1708-1710 --  5.3.2  1711-1747 --  5.3.3  After Abolition, 1748-1753 -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 Economic and Social Control -- 6.1 Economic Control --  6.1.1  Food Supplies --  6.1.2  Regulation of Employment --   a) The Problem of 'Loose' Servants --   b) Wages --   c) Other Trades --  6.1.3  The Relationship between the Regality Court and the Justices of the Peace -- 6.2 Religious and Social Control --  6.2.1  People --  6.2.2  Kirk Session Business and the Regality Court of Grant --  6.2.3  Slander --  6.2.4  Funding the Kirk -- 6.3 Local Governance, Conclusions -- 7 The Regality Court and the Landed Estate -- Woodlands, Game, Farming and Improvement -- 7.1 Protecting the Laird's Woodlands and Game --  7.1.1  Woodlands and Their Management in Eighteenth-century Strathspey --  7.1.2  The Regality Court and the Woods --   a) Continuity and Change --   b) The York Buildings Company -- 7.2 Game --  7.2.1  Hunting, Fishing and Game in the Regality of Grant --  7.2.2  Poaching Cases in the Regality Court -- 7.3 Improvement and Farming --  7.3.1  Pastoral Farming -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 8 Land Tenure -- 8.1 Tacks and Tenure -- 8.2 Vassal's Labour Services -- 8.3 Conclusion -- 9 Conclusion -- 9.1 Justice, Society, and Heritable Jurisdictions -- 9.2 Jurisdiction -- 9.3 Heritable Justice after 1748 -- Bibliography -- Index.

The Finance For Business (FFB) programme operated by Highlands and Islands Enterprise through its network of local enterprise companies is a good example of a package of support designed to stimulate business enterprise, company investment and economic development in predominantly rural areas. During recent years governments in Western Europe and North America have devoted more resources to this type of policy and the need for evaluation of such programmes has increased. The European Commission has been particularly active in encouraging research and the dissemination of good practice. This article examines some of the important conceptual and measurement problems which are relevant to this area of evaluation and uses the FFB programme as a case study with which to illustrate how a cost benefit evaluation drawing on survey-based approaches can be undertaken. In so doing it demonstrates how it is possible to compare the costs and benefits of such programmes and provide Value For Money (VFM) performance indicators which allow meaningful comparison to be made across programmes. The article concludes by pointing to some of the strengths and weaknesses of existing evaluation approaches and makes recommendations as to where further research might usefully be undertaken.

The Industrial Revolution in Scotland is the first new student text on this subject for more than two decades. While the focus is on Scotland, Dr Whatley's approach is largely comparative and he places the Scottish experience of industrialisation within the context of the debate about the 'British' Industrial Revolution. Unusually, Dr Whatley's study encompasses the whole of Scotland and assesses the nature and impact of early industrialisation in the woollen manufacturing towns of the Borders and in Dundee, the Scottish centre of linen production. He also examines the Highlands and Islands, upon which industrial development had a profound impact, and which arguably suffered more than any other region in Britain, as the economy became more centralised from the 1820s. Social as well as the economic causes and consequences of the Industrial Revolution are also fully considered.

In November 1918, the implementation of agrarian change in the Scottish Highlands threatened another wave of unemployment and eviction for the land-working population, which led to widespread and varied social protest. This book not only offers new insights and a greater understanding of what was happening in the Highlands in this period, but illustrates how a range of forms of protest were used which demand attention, not least for the fact that these events, unlike most of the earlier Land Wars period, were successful.